Transmigration After Becoming Love Saint-Chapter 488 - 171: What, Did He Fail You Too?_3

"You said there were no Goddesses here?" Wang Mu asked.

"There are..." Gu Yuqing’s palm gently touched the piece of ice, as if unlocking a certain shackle. In that instant, a marvelous ice-blue radiance erupted, swiftly enveloping everything.

Wang Mu’s heart trembled. Could this be the final test of the Immortal Mansion?

The surrounding landscape changed rapidly.

"Congratulations, fellow Taoist, on finding such a wonderful match."

Wang Mu regained his senses, only to find himself dressed in a bright red wedding robe, holding hands with a graceful woman also clad in a red bridal gown. They were joined by a red brocade ribbon.

Looking around, he saw it was the Sword Sect’s Upper Cloud Peak.

The surrounding Disciples were offering congratulations, and in the distance, Sect Master Jian watched with a smile.

Among the Disciples, besides those from the Sword Sect, there were also Disciples from the Fengyue Sect.

Wang Mu looked baffled at first, then realization seemed to dawn on him.

The Sword Sect had formed an alliance with the Fengyue Sect, and he was the tie that bound them, having entered into a marriage alliance with Gu Yuqing of the Fengyue Sect.

Wang Mu felt that something was amiss, yet he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

Everything seemed so real.

The wedding involved the three ceremonies and nine rites, a complex etiquette for the union of two sects in the Cultivation World, with many elaborate customs.

By dusk, Wang Mu had returned to a specially established Cave Dwelling Immortal Court in the Sword Sect. He entered the room and looked at the woman in red, her face veiled by a beaded silk cloth, and fell silent for a moment.

"Brother Wang..." a faint voice called out.

"I’m here." Wang Mu walked over and removed his own robe, contemplating. How could I have ended up married to Gu Yuqing? Hmm... it seems... not that wrong after all. Is it mutual affection?

"Won’t you lift my veil?"

Wang Mu walked over, lifted the red silk cloth, and revealed a stunningly beautiful face, an alluring countenance that also held a touch of innocence.

On her slightly blushing cheeks was a pair of clear eyes tinged with shyness, yet also holding a hint of complexity.

"Brother Wang, from now on we are a Taoist couple..." she said with a slight smile.

"..." Wang Mu.

I still feel something isn’t quite right. But it seems...

「Three years passed in a flash.」

In these three years of marriage, Wang Mu and Gu Yuqing treated each other with the utmost respect. Their Cultivation rose, reaching Golden Core Peak.

「Another three years passed.」

The couple traveled together across the Nine Provinces, and their Cultivation smoothly broke through to the Nascent Soul realm.

「Ten years later.」

The Demon Path erupted in Tianlin Continent. The two of them fought side by side to eradicate the demonic forces, enduring several life-and-death battles. Together, they eliminated over thirty adherents of the Demon Path, and their bond deepened. They cultivated the precious scriptures of both their sects. In the decades that followed, they became a celestial couple, envied by countless Cultivators in the Cultivation World.

「Thirty years later.」

Gu Yuqing faced the great tribulation of Divinity Transformation, with Wang Mu acting as her protector. After half a month, Gu Yuqing failed to pass the tribulation; her Spirit Root was damaged, and her Cultivation was utterly lost.

On the stone bed, the pale-faced Gu Yuqing murmured in a low voice, "Brother Wang... I have no Cultivation left, and my time is short. You... you should find another to be your Taoist couple."

Wang Mu remained silent.

He looked back on the fleeting decades of his Cultivation journey.

Time is merciless. No matter how peerless one’s splendor, one will eventually succumb to the boundless Heavenly Tribulations of Cultivation, reduced to withered bones.

The once-envied celestial couple could not withstand the pressure of the Heavenly Dao.

Looking at the Taoist couple with whom he had shared his pillow for decades, their affection had long since turned into a gentle stream mingling within their bodies, impossible to sever.

Yet, if one desired to achieve the Great Taoist, sacrifices were necessary.

Wang Mu shook his head, turned away, and searched across the Nine Provinces and Four Seas. He found a method of symbiotic existence, allowing them to share a common fate, to extend her life.

As a consequence, his own Cultivation began to decline day by day.

「Ten years later.」

He too had become a mortal once more.

"This Immortal Path... one might as well not cultivate it," he said.

His Spirit Root and Cultivation were gone.

From a high and mighty Cultivator, he had fallen to become a mere mortal.

The two left the Nine Provinces Cultivation World and became mortals in the mundane world, retreating to Anle Village as an elderly couple.

Gu Yuqing’s once extraordinary beauty, under the erosion of time, had long given way to white hair and skin as wrinkled as cloth.

He tilled the land while she wove. They returned to the mortal world, their once unyielding Taoist Hearts discarded along with their past. Amidst the attrition of daily life, they slowly awaited the descent of their twilight years.

The humble mortal village was no idyllic paradise and was often battered by the elements, yet it lacked the heavy burden of the Cultivation World. Their days passed with a fair amount of peace.

「Twenty years later.」

Their Life Span was exhausted.

The couple lay in a wooden hut that had been battered by wind and rain for decades.

"Brother Wang... have you ever regretted it?" the old woman slowly asked, her voice frail and aged.

The now elderly Wang Mu closed his eyes and said, "We’re about to die, why are you still asking this? You old dear, you’re really strange..."

"..."

For a moment, the wooden hut was silent.

"Brother Wang, I never expected... you would do this..." Her voice, tinged with complexity, gradually grew stronger and more vigorous.

Wang Mu opened his eyes. Looking at the old woman beside him, he was slightly stunned.

He saw her appearance slowly returning to its former glory.

Waves of Spiritual Power began to emanate from her.

In just a few blinks, she transformed back into the stunningly beautiful Gu Witch of before, though her eyes now held an incredible depth of complexity.

"What’s happening?" Wang Mu asked.

Wang Mu looked at himself and found that he too was slowly regaining his strength, changing gradually. In the blink of an eye, he had returned to his original state.

The past decades felt like an ephemeral dream.

It was both real and illusory.

Then, Wang Mu’s entire body trembled as understanding dawned.

His expression darkened as he looked at her; everything had become clear.

He remained silent for a few seconds, then asked, "What kind of test is this?"

"It’s not a test..." Gu Yuqing said softly. "It was just my own selfish desire..."

"Selfish desire?"

Wang Mu was taken aback.

"I wanted to know if I truly held a place in Brother Wang’s heart," Gu Yuqing said softly. "Just now, we were in a mustard seed world—a special, sealed ice illusion. Decades passed in a single breath, as we endured the ravages of time..."